Secure Livelihoods Research Consortium

22 Jun

Conflict, fragility and recovery: six years of research, three surprises

Read Rachel Slater, Paul Harvey and Richard Mallett's reflections on SLRC's research on the ODI's comment site ...

25 Apr

The New Deal and South Sudan: Eggs in one basket state-building?

How resilient will the New Deal prove to be in the face of renewed conflict in South Sudan? ...

13 Mar

Malnutrition in Sierra Leone: Moving away from training, training (and more training)

Capacity building is stuck in a rut and tackling malnutrition in Sierra Leone requires different approaches...

27 Jun

Informal taxation and livelihoods: A neglected research agenda

Informal taxation plays an important role in people's everyday struggle to secure their livelihoods. We need to look at what people have to pay to get by if we really want to open up opportunities to create resilient livelihoods in conflict affected situations....

01 Mar

Getting beyond seeds and tools in eastern DRC

"Difficult and risky contexts should not be an excuse for inaction or inadequate action when it comes to securing livelihoods"...

09 Jan

What are SLRC researchers reading?

"We've pick out a few good reads which look at different forms of taxation, development, governance and the New Deal."...

10 Dec

The New Deal in difficult places

"The New Deal is an exciting new development, but this shouldn't prevent critical analysis of its limitations"...

16 Nov

MDGs and ‘Fragile States’

"Are 'fragile states' failing to meet the MDGs? The answer might not be as black and white as one might expect."...

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